Former Alabama swimmer Victor Johansson already had competed in the men’s 400-meter freestyle, 800-meter freestyle and 1,500-meter freestyle representing Sweden in the pool at the Paris Olympics. On Friday, Johansson was schedule to swim in the men’s 10-kilometer open-water race in the Seine River. But he did not participate on the recommendation of the Swedish medical staff, which was concerned about the E. coli levels of the water.

“After we have weighed their recommendation with all the risks that exist, it felt like the best decision is to drop out,” Johansson said a translation by swimswam.com of the swimmer’s comments to the Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter. “Therefore it has now been decided that I will not swim. There is a lot of information that has been flying around, but what we know for sure is that people have become ill, so even though the levels have gone down, it didn’t feel good to start.”

Belgium triathlete Claire Michel was hospitalized due to E. Coli after competing.

The levels of pollution in the Seine caused training sessions for the triathlon to be canceled on two days and the men’s and women’s events to be held on the same day instead of consecutive days. A training session for the open-water swimmers also had been canceled on Tuesday.

One other swimmer also did not start the men’s 10-kilometer open-water swim, and four did not finish.

Hungary’s Kristof Rasovszky won the gold medal in 1 hour, 50 minutes, 52.7 seconds – 2.1 seconds ahead of silver medalist Oliver Klemet of Germany.

In the pool, Johansson had the 18th-fastest time in the 400-meter freestyle, 16th-fastest in the 800-meter freestyle and 17th-fastest in the 1,500-meter freestyle.

Johansson swam for the Crimson Tide in the 2022-23 season.

Buoyed by four birdies on the back nine at Le Golf National, former Alabama golfer Stephanie Meadow had her best round of the women’s golf tournament with an even-par 72 on Friday.

Representing Ireland, Meadow carded a 6-over 78 in the first round on Wednesday and a 2-over 74 in the second round on Thursday.

Meadows was tied for 52nd after the second round, but she will enter the final round on Saturday tied for 44th.

An even-par round kept Switzerland’s Morgane Metraux in the lead on Friday, but she’s now tied for the top spot with New Zealand’s Lydia Ko, who had a 4-under showing in the third round. Metraux and Ko are at 9-under 207 for the tournament, with the United States’ Rose Zhang and Japan’s Miyu Yamashita two shots back.

At Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France, on Friday, former Auburn sprinter Ebony Morrison was disqualified in the semifinals of the women’s 100-meter hurdles for not going over every hurdle.

Morrison qualified for the final 16 in the event by winning a race in the Repechage Round on Thursday. Representing Liberia, Morrison won Heat 2 in 12.82 seconds to advance.

Morrison ran 12.93 seconds in Heat 2 of Round 1 qualifying on Wednesday, which was not fast enough to take the shortcut to the semifinals.

After finishing fourth in the men’s 400-meter dash on Wednesday, former Alabama sprinter Jereem Richards ran the second leg for Trinidad and Tobago in the men’s 4-by-400-meter relay on Friday. At 3 minutes, 6.73 seconds, the team finished eighth in the first of the two heats in Round 1 qualifying and did not advance.

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.